CARDBOARD SOLES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 7

CARDBOARD SOLES

BOOTMAKER FINED i's. A bootmaker named D. Coronno pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court yesterday to an information cf having manufac-tured-and sold a pair of shoes, the solos of which were not composed of proper leather,.and did fail to stamp,legibly on tiw outer soles a statement as to vrliat materials were included, in tho inner, soles. Inspector Wilson,. of the Labour. Department said tho shoes, or.rather,. sandals, Svere all right except for, the inner sole, which cardboard. Unless such'articles of footwear-were stamped, the -, customer would, not know what he was buying. The sandals were sold at 7s; 6d. a pair. It would only take 3d. to make the sandals quite good, but the fact of the inner soles being composed of cardboard maHo a'difference of practically 2s. to 3s. to the customer, because once theouter soles wore out the sandals were valueless. • . . '

. Mr. Frazer: What would these shoes sell at if they,were leather all through? Mr. Wilson: About the same price. Coronno said that ho was sick at the time the shoes were tt'ken away from his. shop, otherwise Jie would have ensured that they'wero stamped. In reply to a question by the Mosistrate as to why. he did not put leathor into tho inner 'solA, defendant replied thnf--it would, make Jio difference to the sandals. If heavy leather were put into the sandals it would make them too heavy. . • _ "I am satisfied," said Mr. Frazer, "that the purchaser gets something which is not worth nearly so much to him as a-pair of solid leather sandals." Defendant was fined i's.